In A Socialist Country You Can Get

Verbal Ability Is A Highly Overrated Thing In A Guy, And It's Our Pathetic Need For It That Gets Us Into So Much Trouble.

Most Directors, I Discovered, Need To Be Convinced That The Screenplay They're Going To Direct Has Something To Do With Them. And This Is A Tricky Thing If You Write Screenplays Where Women Have Parts That Are Equal To Or Greater Than The Male Part. And I Thought, 'why Am I Out There Looking For Directors?'—because You Look At A List Of Directors, It's All Boys. It Certainly Was When I Started As A Screenwriter. So I Thought, 'i'm Just Gonna Become A Director And That'll Make It Easier.'

Plastic Surgery Is One Of The Ways That People Deal With The Aging Process. And I Don't Mean By Using It As A Form Of Denial, But As A Kind Of Negotiation With It.

Too Few Journalists Become Screenwriters. I Say To All The Would-be Screenwriters: Become Journalists. And I’ll Say To Working Journalists: Do Not Stay Journalists. Become Screenwriters.

Working As A Journalist Is Exactly Like Being A Wallflower At An Orgy.